Education for Sustainable Development 

East 15 Acting School

Modules

• EA119 Contextual and Community Studies
• EA171 Theatre History in a Global Context
• EA241 Applied Theatre Skills I: Consulting the Community
• EA242 Applied Theatre Skills II: Developing the Community
• EA323 Issue-Led Theatre

Edge Hotel School

Modules

• EG221 Sustainability in Hospitality
• EG221 Sustainability in Events

Essex Law School

Modules

• LW219 Selected Issues in Public International Law
• LW352 Legal Ethics and Justice
• LW356 International Environmental Law
• LW515 Regional Human Rights Systems
• LW622 International Law of the Sea
• LW928 International Environmental Law and Sustainability
• LW930 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Context
• LW941 Corporate Responsibility and Business Law

 Essex Pathways

Modules

• IA102 Introduction to Biology

History

Modules

• HR107 Early Modern Europe in Global Context: Encounters, Exchanges, and Exploitation

Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Degrees

• MA Wild Writing: Literature, Landscape, and the Environment

Modules

• LT899 Climate Fiction
• LT904 The New Nature Writing

School of Philosophy and Art History

Modules

• AR325 Art and Nature
• AR959 Heritage and Human Rights
• PY911: Environmental Philosophy (MA)
• PY911: Environmental Philosophy (Undergraduate)

 Interdisciplinary studies

 Degrees

• BA Social Change
• BA Global Studies
• BA European Studies
• BA Urban Sustainability Studies
• BA Philosophy, Ethics and Sustainability
• BA Global Studies with Sustainability
• MA in Environment, Society and Culture.

Modules

• CS200 Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainability and Community Action
• CS201 The World in Question: The Social, Cultural and Political Legacies of the Enlightenment
• CS300 Community Engagement: Group Projects
• CS315 Global Challenges in Interdisciplinary Perspective: Water Conflicts, Water Cultures

Psychology

Modules

• PS508 "Believing is Seeing". The power of belief and suggestion on the mind and brain
• PS517 Thinking Green: Introduction to the Psychology of Pre-environmental Behaviour

School of Life Sciences

Essex Plant Innovation

Degrees

• BSc Global Sustainability 
• MSc Marine Science and Sustainable Development
• MSc Tropical Marine Biology

Modules

• BS111 Plant Biology and Ecosystems
• BS112 Marine Ecology
• BS113 Animal Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour
• BS114 Marine Biology Field Skills
• BS215 Environmental Biology and Eco-physiology Field Course
• BS241 Ecology: Populations and Communities
• BS243 Biodiversity and Conservation
• BS251 Marine Biodiversity
• BS255 Coral Reef Biology
• BS256 Tropical Marine Field Research Skills
• BS303 Estuarine and Coastal Ecology Field Module
• BS307 Oceanography and Marine Conservation
• BS344 Pollution: Impacts and Management
• BS346 Conservation Management and Practice
• BS352 Freshwater Ecology
• BS354 Fisheries Ecology
• BS832 Research Project in Ecological and Marine Sciences
• BS705 Tropical Marine Resources
• BS706 Tropical Marine Systems
• BS707 Methods in Tropical Marine Biology
• BS708 Professional Skills in Tropical Marine Biology

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Include sustainability, equality, diversity in the curriculum through their professional body accreditation.

 Health and Social Care

Degrees

• MSc Global Public Health

Modules

• HS185 Welfare, Wellbeing and Health
• HS291 Emotional, Relational and Mental Health Issues
• HS371 Advancing Occupational Therapy
• HS656 Social Work and Human Rights
• HS785 Clinical Intervention and Skills 3
• HS887 Globalisation, Health Policy and Governance
• HS895 Mastering Occupation
• HS958 Public Mental Health

Sport Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences

Modules

• SE205 Health and Active Lifestyle
• SE330 Environments Shape Physical Activity
• SE755 Promoting Health and Activity

Essex Business School

Degrees

• BA Global Studies with Business Management

Modules

• BE168 Sustainability Accounting, Accountability and Management
• BE171 Sustainability Reporting
• BE463 Sustainable Business
• BE467 Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

Department of Economics

Modules

• EC205 Poverty, Community and Development 
• EC383 Environmental Economics

Department of Government

Degrees

• BA International Development
• MA Environmental Futures with Climate Change
• MSc Environmental Futures with Climate Change
• MA Political Economy

Language and Linguistics

Modules

•  LG470 Introduction to embedding sustainability into TEFL and TESOL

Department of Sociology

Degrees

• BA Sociology and Health
• BA Sociology with Human Rights
• BA Social Anthropology with Human Rights
• MA Migration Studies

Modules

• SC107 Introduction to Social Anthropology
• SC111 The Sociological Imagination
• SC204 Sociology of Crime and Control
• SC209 Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change
• SC301 Rethinking modernity
• SC304 Globalization and Crime
• SC340 The Current Issues in Social Science
• SC361 American Society: Ethnic Encounters in the making of the US
• SC507 Consumption, political economy and sustainability
• SC901 Topics in Contemporary Social Theory
• SC920 Colonialism, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights

Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic studies

Modules

• PA 931 Contexts of Refugee Experience
• PA932 Psychosocial Perspectives on Human Rights

• Climate change
• Circular economy
• Nature, health and well-being
• Conserving biodiversity
• Resilience
• Permaculture design
• Organic and local food
• Renewable energy
• Sustainable transport 
• Materials awareness
• Overcoming ecological estrangement 
• Waste
• Emissions reduction
• Ecosystem services

Anyone who would like to enrol on the Summer School should send an application letter and two-page CV to Dr Jane Hindley as soon as possible.

We will be holding the first round of interviews in the first week of the Easter vacation. Once we have received your application we will assign you an interview slot.

In your application letter please address the following points:

• Why would you like to enrol on the summer school?
• Do you have any knowledge/experience relating to environmental issues and the theory/ practice of sustainability?
• Which area of sustainable practice (biodiversity, energy, food, waste, transport), interests you most and why?